Senior Partner Engineer, Niantic Labs
$175.3-205k
+ Bonus and equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Augmented reality software development
Job no longer available
Augmented reality software development
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$175.3-205k
+ Bonus and equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human being in the physical world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience in Unity mobile development and C#
- Passionate about learning and development for yourself and others including teaching and mentoring other engineers
- Strong creativity for software development projects and can quickly understand new technologies and translate them into tangible and useful applications
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others
Desirable
- Experience with end-to-end game development as a software engineer
- Experience in AR/VR/Map development
- AR/VR/MR HMD development experience
- C++, WebXR, Javascript, 3js experience
- Experience leading, building, mobile apps and consumer-facing products
- Experience in technical consulting or similar support roles
What the job involves
- Niantic's AR Team is seeking a Partner Engineer to help our partners using the Niantic platform. Niantic Engineering leads the development of a development platform that enables anybody to create location-based AR Experiences
- Responsibilities include interacting with developers from third parties, internal platform engineers, and business development teams
- You will provide direct support to partners and developers throughout the lifecycle of platform adoption
- You will guide developer/partner teams with prototyping, to initial development and integration, to publication
- Deeply understand the Niantic Platform API and their underlying implementations. Be the “first line” consumer of our SDKs, writing effective applications that demonstrate the use of our API and Platform to our integrators
- Collaborate and with Developer Relations team and external partners to understand and resolve technology issues in a timely manner
- Develop tools, samples, documentation, and repeatable processes to help adoption of our SDKs and Platform
- Gather technical requirements, give presentations/demos, perform design review, receive feedback, and work with Engineering, BD and Product teams to ensure partnerships are successful
- Assist the Developer Relations and Business Development teams by crafting proof of concept demos for new features and technology
- Be a subject matter expert in relevant project/product and technology areas. Propose and implement critical initiatives to improve the integration processes, which may require working with cross-sectional teams
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Niantic team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings
- Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Wednesday
Our take
Niantic Labs is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Monster Hunter Now, Pikmin Bloom, and Pokémon GO, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.
Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.
Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$245m
SERIES C
Total funding: $774.3m
Company benefits
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Parental leave transition assistance by Maven
- Fertility benefits with Carrot
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance including 100% paid employee healthcare
- 100% of premiums for long-term and short-term disability and life insurance
- Mental healthcare access by Spring Health and EAP
- Increasing paid time off with tenure
- Five flex days per year to attend Niantic community events or volunteer
- Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year
- 401(k) match
- Equity options
- Compare and refinance loans with Credible’s online loan marketplace
- Wellness Reimbursement: We build our platform and games to give our players even more reasons to get outside, explore the world, and lead more active lifestyles, so we offer monthly gym, internet, and cell phone reimbursements to help our teams do just that.
- Commuter benefits and subsidization: To allow you to set aside money every month for both parking and transportation
- Donation Matching: Niantic gives enables employee donation matching and volunteer opportunities. Each employees can request a Niantic match of up to $500 per employee, each year.
- Legal Services and Identity Theft: ARAG’s legal services provide protection for many legal matters incurred by you, your spouse, or your children.
Company HQ
Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Hanke
(CEO)Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.
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